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"Sickness Is Truth," "Bacon Looks at Iowa State Teachers College," and "Iowa Dirge" by Mona Van Duyn from The Pen, Volume XIV, Number 2 (March 1942).

"Mrs. Richsmeier Meets a Crisis," "This Sky," "O'Neill and Adams Face Multiplicity," and "Credo" by Mona Van Duyn from The Purple Pen, Volume XIV, Number 1 (November 1941). Van Duyn's first publication.

"The Bell" by Mona Van Duyn from The Kenyon Review, Volume VII, Number 4 (Autumn 1945). Van Duyn's first published short story.

Typescript and autograph drafts of "To Poets' Worksheets in the Air-Conditioned Vault of a Library" by Mona Van Duyn. Published in the CARLETON MISCELLANY, Fall 1965 and collected in TO SEE, TO TAKE (1970).

Typescript draft with published press release of Mona Van Duyn's 1971 National Book Award in Poetry acceptance speech for her book, To See, To Take, March 4, 1971.

Typescript draft with minimal corrections of "Late Loving" by Mona Van Duyn. Published in Near Changes (1990), "Late Loving" celebrates Van Duyn's nearly fifty-year marriage to Jarvis Thurston.

Program for the Pulitzer Prizes 75th Anniversary Celebration on September 22, 1991 where Mona Van Duyn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Near Changes.

The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Near Changes awarded to Mona Van Duyn on April 9, 1991.

Typescript draft with no corrections of "Paratrooper" by Mona Van Duyn. Published in the Kenyon Review, Volume 6, Number 3 (Summer 1944) and collected in Valentines to the Wide World(1959).

Autograph and typescript drafts with corrections of "For May Swenson" by Mona Van Duyn. Published in Poetry(January 1991) and collected in Firefall (1993).